We regret to note the death on last Saturday, at
the age of seventy-seven, of Mr. George Murray smith, the publisher. Mr. Smith, -who succeeded to the control of his father's business when he was only twenty-one, was intimately ass°. elated with a great many of the most brilliant men of letters, art, and science on terms which reflected at least an much credit on his goodness of heart as on his great business ability and literary flair. In illustration of these qualities it is enough to mention that he shared with his reader, Mr. Smith Williams, the kudos of discovering Charlotte 13ronte, that he brought out some of Ruskin's greatest woaks, that he was the publisher of Thackeray and Browning, of the prose works of Matthew Arnold, and the novels of his gifted niece. As the founder of the Coraill and the Pall Mall Gazette he deserYek to be remembered, but his best monument is the splendid "Dictionary of National Biography," awork planned with a noble disregard for business principles, and carried out with admirable efficiency under the successive editorships of Mr. Leslie Stephen and Mr. Sidney Lee. Mr. George Smith did great and notable service to English literature.
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